Fanfic / The Party Never Ended

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Party in Pinkie Pie! According to Pinkie, there's always been a great party inside her, and that's why she's always ready to spread the joy all the time!

...Only lately, she hasn't felt quite like herself. She's been keeping a very important secret from all her friends — especially Rainbow Dash! — and though she's found ways to cope, they're starting to not work as well as they used to. And as she struggles with her unrequited crush, she can't help but worry if the party inside her is coming to an end...

Action Mom: Derpy Hooves/Ditzy Doo becomes a pure Determinator during the storm, all for the sake of her daughter Dinky.

All Love Is Unrequited: Pinkie isn't the only one with a crush on somepony; Lyra also has feelings for her best friend Bon-Bon, but is afraid of ruining their friendship. And other instances pop up as the story progresses, like Caramel and Twilight towards Big Mac and Cloudkicker for Fluttershy.

Answering Echo: Appears in Part 11, after Pinkie learns how Loneliness was created.

Arc Words: Yo dawg, we heard you like arc words, so we gave your arc words their own arc words so that they can... arc while... they... word? Whatever. The arc words are "I love you, Pinkie! Please wake up!", but those words are not revealed to the reader until near the end. Every time Pinkie hears them, the reader is greeted with "It said seven simple words to her..."

As Long as There is Evil: Nightmare exists so long as despair exists. "You'll find me where there's no laughter to be heard, and wherever despair has taken hold of a heart."

Crapsaccharine World: Invoked by Nightmare; Pinkie's dream is a dream come true, where Rainbow Dash has agreed to go steady with her, and she's holding the titular party that's never going to end. The dream is shaped by her denial, which will end once she and Rainbow Dash dies.

Dark Reprise: After Dash rejects her confession, Pinkie sings part of her 'cleaning up/cheering up Dash' song again.

Pinkie Pie, when it comes to fighting Nightmare. She will NOT give in to despair.

All the pegasi working to the point of exhaustion to try to hold back the storm. Fluttershy deserves special mention because she is not a good flyer and not skilled in weather manipulation, but will protect her friends to the point of incapacitation.

Everyone Is Gay: Lampshaded by the ending, where Applejack notices Big Mac and Caramel are among those coupling up after the storm clears and comments that it's apparently up to her to continue the Apple family line. ...And Rarity takes offense to that.

Rainbow Dash mentions the "Swayback Mountains" at one point. This is a nod to a previous Applejack/Rarity fan fic Butterscotch Sundae wrote.

Chapter 11 opens up with what can only be described as a Take That! parody of Cupcakes, and later, Rocket To Insanity. Made awesome by the fact that it's Nightmare's Mind Rape...which Pinkie subverts by lucid dreaming.

When All You Have Is a Hammer...: Pinkie's primary way of coping with her crush before the plot gets rolling? Throwing a secret party for one every month where she pours out her heart to an imaginary Rainbow Dash.

Xanatos Gambit: Or, close enough, set up by Pinkie of all ponies. When she and Dash are in Dash's heart, she takes Nightmare's possession attempt meant for Dash. Turns out that she knows that Nightmare will win in Dash's heart but has no chance against her in her own heart. Even if that plan does fail, at least Dash will be safe.

You Make Me Sic: While transcribing a letter for Twilight, Spike stumbles over the spelling for typhoon and writes down everything Twilight says.

You Monster!: Rainbow Dash says this to Nightmare after he revealed to her the carnage he's supposedly unleashing on Ponyville.

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